. >> good afternoon, commissioners, again, nicole sandkulla, basca ceo. so i wanted to take my time today to provide you an update on our efforts to secure long-term water supply, reliability for the wholesale commerce and their water commerce. as you know, your level of service goal, your commitment to them, is shortages of 20 -- no greater than 20% systemwide, and for the bawsca agencies, because of how we share those supplies during drought, that means a 26% cutback to the bawsca agencies. early on after you adopted that level service goal, collectively they decided they wanted to investigate and invest in a greater level of reliability. that's really where this strategy effort comes from and its focus, and that dry year yield, when we released our report in 2015 to get to a 0% shortfall was 48,000-acre feet. obviously, that's 100% reliability, but it gave us some kind of target to start with. we also recognized back in 2015, as we have now become even clearer these days, there's a lot of unknowns, about climate change, demand, regulatory and environme